Saw-setting apparatus.



V. ROYLE.

SAW SETTING APPARATUS.

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Patented Nov. 2?, 1917.

' fma/emiw w VERNON BOYLE, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov; 2?, 191?...

Application filed January 2, 1915. Serial No. 193.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VERNON BOYLE, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Saw-Setting Apparatus, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to saw-setting apparatus, and more particularly toa saw rest for maintaining a circular saw in a single plane during itsrotary movement for bringing its teeth into position to be set.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a saw-setting apparatus showing the restin dotted outline and a portion of a circular saw in the position whichit assumes when the teeth are being set.

Fig. 2 is a view of the same in side elevation,

Fig. 3 is a vertical central section taken from front to rear.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation with saw removed,

F 5 is a transverse section taken in the plane of the line AA, Fig. 2,and

Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are respectively side elevation, plan and frontelevation of the rest removed from the saw-setting apparatus.

The rest which forms the subject-matter of my present application andwhich intimately coacts with a centering device and an anvil or suitablesupport on which the teeth lie when acted upon by the setting tool, ishere shown in connection with the sawsetting apparatus shown, describedand claimed in my pending application Serial No. 863,49 filed September25th, 1914.

The anvil is denoted by 1, the setting tool by 2, and the centeringcone, movable toward and away from the anvil support, by 3. The saw isdenoted by 4.

To insure an accurate setting of the teeth, it is important that the sawblade be prevented from tilting laterally on an axis extending along theblade from the longitudinal axis of the anvil through the axis of thecentering cone. To eifectively prevent such tilting, I provide a restfor the blade on opposite sides of the centering cone, as follows: Ayoke piece comprising two upwardly extending arms 5 and 6 has two guiderings 7 and 8 formed thereon or secured thereto,

which rings are intended to embrace with a sliding fit, thescrew-threaded stem 9 of the centering cone 3. The rings 7 and S arehere shown olfset from the face of the yoke piece and the upper ends ofthe arms 5 and 6 are turned forward, as shown at 10, 11, to form pointsof rest for the saw blade at diametrically opposite sides of the axis ofthe centering cone 3. An elongated slot 12 in the yoke piece, allows thecentering cone supporting bracket 13 to project through and receive thescrew-threaded stem of the cone. The yoke piece is raised and allowed tolower by the screwing on or off of a nut 14 engaged with the threadedstem 9 below the guide ring 8.

In operation, the saw 1 having been placed on the cone 3 and adjusted atthe proper distance from and inclination to the anvil by thehorizontally sliding bracket 13 and the vertically adjustable cone 3,respectively, while the yoke piece or rest is lowered so as not tointerfere, the yoke piece or rest is then raised until the upper ends ofits arms 5 and 6 both touch the underside of the saw blade, when thework of setting may be done. The raising of the rest will adjust theblade if it is tilted out of the proper plane and will securely hold itagainst unintentional tilting during the setting operation.

WVhat I claim is:

1. In saw setting apparatus, the combination with a centering deviceprovided with a stem, of an anvil, a saw rest supported on the said stemof the centering device in position to engage the saw on opposite sidesof a right line between the anvil and centering device.

:2. In saw setting apparatus, the combination with an anvil andcentering device, of a rest in position to engage the saw blade onopposite sides of and in line with the longitudinal axis of thecentering device.

3. In saw setting apparatus, the combination with a centering deviceprovided with a stem, of a saw rest supported on said stem andadjustable relatively to the centering device.

1. In saw setting apparatus, the combination with a centering deviceprovided with a stem and means for adjusting it up and down, of a sawrest supported on the stem of the centering device and means for adjusting the rest up and down independently of the adjustment of thecentering device.

' saw in an inclined operative relation to the Witnesses:

5. Saw setting apparatus comprising an as my invention, I have signed myname in anvil having an inclined outer face portion presence of twowitnesses, this fourth day and a depressed inner face portionand suitofDecember, 1914. able means for centering and supporting a VERNON BOYLEil HEBER BOYLE, In testimony that I claim the foregoing F. J. BRADLEY.

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